Aug 17/07
Missing the beach
I happened to sit beside Charles Schillings at a good Sicilian restaurant last night in Paris. Hopefully this means we’ll be featuring some Afro-electro remixes sometime in the future. Either way, the forthcoming Hôtel Costes 10 that he slipped us features a great opener with the kind of North African overtones we so appreciate here at Benn loxo.
Anyway, back to more Original Music…
Today we’ll hear a couple tracks off Dada Kidawa Sister Kidawa, an interesting compilation of Cuban/Afro-Arab music from Tanzania in the 1960s.
It features venerable bands such as NUTA Jazz plus several others like the Kiko Kids Jazz and the Cuban Marimba Band. All these groups emerged during a guitar-based, dance music phase in Dar Es Salaam that emerged during the early 60s.
The compilation’s title track is perfect for what is probably France’s quietest week. Everyone is on vacation, most stores and restaurants are closed. If Paris were on the ocean I’d be down on the beach, listening to Western Jazz Band as I sipped a cocktail under a palm tree.
ps- Benn loxo listener, Zakariyya, is looking for Afel Bocoum’s Alkibar. Does anyone know where he could buy or trade for a copy?
Kiko Kids Jazz – Tanganyika na Uhuru Kids Jazz
Western Jazz Band – Dada Kidawa
thank u for this!
if folks like this, they should definitely be on the lookout for the new reissue – zanzibara 3 (which I’m salivating over and waiting on a US distributor to get hold of)
I’m sure Allegro Music (in Portland, OR) has copies of Zanzibara 3, or will very soon. they’re the US distributors for Buda – you might want to take a look at their site.
http://www.allegro-music.com/
[...] You might have already heard some Western Jazz Band from another album back in August when I did a post about Original Music’s Dada Kidawa, Sister Kidawa compilation. [...]
Steve,
Can you tell where this guy Rashid Hanzuruni, because now adays he is not in the scine for quite a long time, I am missing his music. Last time I saw him was at Nice beach south of France perfoming with his Ochestra it was late September 2004. To tell you the truth his guitar style make me crazy